CC: Drones

Adds drones for the CC: Tweaked mod, opening new automation possibilities in Minecraft.

Main Features

Drones have an extensive set of programming commands:

• Forward movement - activated by drone.engineOn(true) command
• Turning - using drone.left(number) and drone.right(number) functions
• Vertical movement - ascent and descent via drone.up(number) and drone.down(number)
• View direction - drone.lookForward() and drone.lookBack() for orientation changes
• Block mining - drone.breakForward() for breaking blocks in front of the drone
• Rotation detection - drone.rotation() shows current rotation angle
• Collision detection - drone.isColliding() checks for obstacles
• Hover mode - drone.hoverOn(true) enables position stabilization
• Block handling - drone.pickupBlock() picks up blocks from below while preserving their data, drone.dropBlock() drops them
• Entity interaction - drone.pickUpEntity() captures mobs and other creatures, drone.dropEntity() releases them

Drone Programming

The Drone Workbench functions as a peripheral device and supports two main commands (where a is the wrapper, e.g. a = peripheral.wrap("left")):

• a.api() - reboots the computer after installing the drone API, simplifying the programming process
• a.export(path) - sends the Lua program from the specified path to the first drone within 2 blocks of the workbench, after which the drone reboots and begins program execution

Crafting recipes can be found using any item viewing mods.

Development Plans

The developer plans to add in the future:

• Environment scanning - drones will be able to survey terrain with subsequent data viewing through a holographic display
• Surveillance cameras - functionality similar to spectator mode in Minecraft
• Chunk loaders - ability to keep world areas loaded

Note

The mod is in early development stage but already offers interesting functionality for experiments and automation.